Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

MT Geoff commented:

Or selecting a one-term senator with zero other political experience to be Secretary of State.
Being fair-minded, we’ve had Secretaries of Defense with very limited defense background for a lot of our history. For some reason, we never seem to select retired generals for the job — they’ve gone to State instead.

Redlite commented:

Indiana commented:

Ohhhhh Goody! Another official in the Obama administration that thinks on-the-job training is satisfactory to the People of The United States; as we all get killed or sent into bankruptcy watching the inmates running the asylum.

Sam Stone commented:

He is the PERFECT candidate because he does NOT know the DoD. Why would it matter if the goal of your nominee is to “fundamentally transform” the DoD? What would it matter if tasked to support more of the Islamic world? To ARM more Islamists. To go into the interior of Africa to fight the warlords Obama’s Kenya family has issues with. He is pitting Muslim against Muslim in the African interior. While arming the Islamists in Egypt who then send arms to their friends in central Africa. Arming the Islamists in Libya so they can kill our Ambassador and 3 others then arming them to go to Algeria to kill more Americans at the BP plant.

Sam Stone commented:

FMB42 commented:

Wow…

Just how far do you think one of us would get if we gave that reply while being interviewed for the position of a highly skilled job that required a certain level of previous experience and/or knowledge?

Ya, we’d be quickly ushered out the door.

It’s alarming that Chuck thinks this position can be competently filled by someone who feels they can get by with some “on the job” training.

Wait a minute…who else has Obama nominated that was utterly unqualified for the job?

Umm…what’s her name…oh ya, Janet Napolitano…right? Or how about that Treasury guy…Tim what’s his name…Geithner wasn’t it?

Then again, Bush made some pretty lame nominations himself. I guess the President of the strongest nation on earth has a right to make a few minor mistakes now and then huh? /s

donh commented:

Dave in NYC commented:

It is not surprising that if you watch the video, he does not actually give the quote attributed to him by Jim Hoft. The actual quote is “There are a lot of things I don’t know about. If confirmed, I intend to know a lot more than I do. I will have to.”

anti-bho commented:

FMB42 commented:

Sorry Dave, but the “on the job training” comment I made still holds true in this case.

Again, this is not a position that should be given to someone who admits that he “doesn’t know a lot of things about.”

Sure, I’ll give Chuck a little credit for being honest.

Just don’t be surprised if he later excuses any of his mistakes by saying “hey give me a break, I’m new to this job and I’m still trying to learn about it” (that is, if he even has the ethics to admit it, which is unlikely with our current crop of blameless politicians and leaders).